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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble!

First and for most I must wish my Mom & Dad a Happy Anniversary, On this day 39 years ago they married. And just 2 years and 3 weeks later I came along! Thank you for all you have done for me and still continue to do. I love you both very much.

Now onto the subject of crafting! This year we are hosting Thanksgiving dinner. I want a cute name plate for the table settings so I am starting my search. I was blog surfing and have found lots of examples of this particular craft so I decided to try it. Here is what I came up with.

Paper/Ink

100946

More Mustard Card Stock

179

119684

Cajun Craze Card Stock

179

121045

Basic Black Card Stock

180

105117

Pumpkin Pie Card Stock

177

100730

Whisper White Card Stock

180

102128

Chocolate Chip Card Stock

180

119685

Cherry Cobbler Card Stock

179

Punches

122361

Petite Pennants Builder

213

119855

Large Oval

212

119850

1 ¾” Circle Punch

212

119869

½” Circle Punch

212

119873

¾” Circle Punch

212

124094

1” Square Punch (Holiday mini)

36

Other

104294

Sticky Strip

206

104332

Snail

206

124134

Cello Bags (Holiday mini)

11

M&M’s

Glue Gun

Turkey Body:

1.Cut one 1½” x 11” strip of More Mustard

2.Cut one 1½” x 11” strip of Cajun Craze

3.Cut one 1” x 11” strip of More Mustard

4.Cut one 1” x 11” strip of Cajun Craze

5.Cut two 1” x 11 strips of Chocolate Chip

6.Score all strips at ¼”

7.Fold using the “Mountain to Valley” techniques. Basically fold one up and one down until it is complete.

8.Cut all pieces, except the Chocolate Chip, so you have 10-12 mountains of each color.

14.With Chocolate Chip CS punch out a circle using the 1 ¾” Circle Punch (this will be the base for the face

15.Punch out two ¾” circles from Whisper White

16.Punch out two ½” circles from Basic Black. Glue onto the Whisper White

17.Attach to the Large Chocolate Chip Circle.

18.Create the Beak by folding Pumpkin CS in half and punch out with the scallop Petite Pennant. Be sure to move the paper down from the top so it stays together

19.Cut out the tongue with Cherry Cobbler using the straight pennant from the Petit Pennant punch. Attach to the inside of the scalloped beak.

20.Attach to face.

21.Using Pumpkin Pie cut out his throat piece. I used the scallop side of the Petite Pennant Punch.

22.Attach all pieces to the large Oval piece cut out of Chocolate Chip

To make his hat

23.Cut out on 1” circle from Chocolate Chip. Snip the circle in the middle and cut out a flap.

24.Cut out one 1” square and trim the sides to make it look like a top hat.

25.Attach the flap to the back of the hat piece.

26.Cut out a small strip of back and attach to the hat. Cut out a small piece of More Mustard and a small black Square. Glue them all together and stick on the black strip.

27.Attach to the Face

The Turkey legs

28.Cut out 4 Scallop Petite Pennant’s

29.Glue the bottom end of the Cellophane bags to them to form the feet.

30.Fill with Orange and Brown M&M’s and close the bags.

31.Attach to the turkey body with Sticky Strip.

How cute is that! If you have any questions at all please leave me a comment and I will get back to you as soon as I can! Happy Thanksgiving planning! With Thanksgiving just 3 weeks away I better get busy!

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Thanks for finding my crafty little blog! I hope you enjoy reading my post as much as I love posting/creating them. I am a Stampin Up! Demonstrator and I love to share my passion for paper crafts with everyone. I am a mother to two teenagers and I love them dearly, really I do!! I married my best friend and soul mate, he puts up with all my crazy hobbies and only complains a little.